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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1888
Page
6
Advertising rates and subscription details for The Mitchell Capital include one copy for one year at 4.66 and other options. The notice lists prices for six months and three months, business cards, and local ads with per-line charges. It notes free marriage and death notices and reduced rates for obituaries and wedding presents, and asks readers to update addresses at the office.
Mitchell presents a development profile with a population around 4 900, multiple banks and utilities, rail access, a creamery for 1 500 cows, two newspapers, several factories and mills, and extensive infrastructure. It highlights four new railroads in 1888, strong drainage, artesian water, and favorable farming lands from five to fourteen dollars an acre. Mitchell invites manufacturing enterprises wholesale houses and all kinds business to relocate and invest.
The letter argues Dakota delegates should remain unpledged and support the most available man such as Sherman, Sarrison, or Allison in that order. It warns against turning the convention into a market for congressional aspirants and stresses Dakota’s critical interests and party harmony.
A Sioux Falls meeting of prominent Democrats formed a committee and adopted resolutions to aid O.S. Glidden in securing Sioux Falls a place on the territorial convention slate, using every effort to back his bid.
Deadwood urges strong support for hosting the territorial convention this year. The town notes Black Hills delegates have faced personal cost and inconvenience, arguing the location is not much farther than Grand Forks which hosted the 1882 gathering.
The Argus Leader, seen as the administration's mouthpiece, is accused of revealing the true tensions between Gov. Church and M. H. Day while others insist there is no hostility. The piece notes perceived bias and candor at odds with discretion.
Geo Allen meets Aberdeen farmers' alliance while Judge Palmer courts Redfield veterans. The passage notes the need for other delegates to mount vigorous campaigning to remain in the race.
The Dakota agricultural college at Brookings will start the summer term on April 4 and run eighteen weeks, with a fall term beginning August 29 for twelve weeks and a three month vacation. The calendar shifts aim to enable wage payments to students for farm and garden work while allowing winter teaching opportunities. The death of Chief Justice Waite leaves a nearly irreparable vacancy on the Supreme Bench, a national calamity given the court’s pivotal role and Waite’s long and broad experience.
The discussion centers on two propositions about the current delegate race. It notes a possible incumbent defeat and expands the field beyond Sioux Falls, listing several alternative candidates from South and North Dakota and others who may seek higher offices.
Special to the Republican from Redfield details the W R C regular meeting at the G A R hall with delegates present. It notes Ohio department greetings and an acknowledgment from the G A R encampment. Membership rose to 522 as of January 1 1888 with 461 gained and 335 lost in 1887.
The piece argues President Cleveland should nominate Allen G. Thurman for chief justice. It cites Thurman’s character and nationwide respect, notes his 1884 presidential-enough fame, and contends age should not disqualify him. It claims Thurman’s qualifications outshine other Democrats.
A editorial praise for Thurman as a strong nominee, noting Mr. Cleveland's sagacity in timely moves on democratic politics and suggesting Thurman as the next chief justice.
Dakota Governor Louis K. Church proclaims Arbor Day for southern and northern Dakota regions on designated dates. He outlines public planting duties, roadside cultivation rights, hedge fencing allowances, and a ten year bounty program of two dollars per planted acre, with reporting requirements and exceptions for railroads and timber culture lands.
The Aberdeen scene hears Governor Church boast of knocking out Day and McCormack in Washington and fame while a local source calls the claim bluff. Aberdeen Republican Marshal Dan Maratta notes Day controls the strongest end of the split and wields patronage in the race for upcoming conventions.
In the Senate on March 27 Mr Blair moved to advance a bill granting preference in civil appointments to disabled Confederate soldiers. Mr Edmunds argued against the second reading, claiming it would erase distinctions between patriotism and loyalty and unlikely ever to be proposed again. The measure was not disposed of. A medical ad at end promotes a free 209 page health book from Drs Starkey and Palen in Philadelphia.
In Minneapolis on March 29 the Welch Vilas case saw Bill Erwin questioned to show he was hired to press the prosecution. An affidavit claimed Erwin seeded a Globe story of Welch debauching the old man's daughter, which the paper later retracted. Court adjourned to consider points of law on the testimony.
Cmcaco March 29 Chief Arthur was questioned about a report that strikers cut away from their leaders and grievance committees. He called the claim a base falsehood and said there is no truth in it. He also refutes rumors of an inflexible boycott against Burlington cars.
The fourth day of the international council of women in Washington attracts large crowds on the morning of March 29. The day opens with a discussion on organization and will later address the legal conditions governing women.
A quarrel between special policemen Charles A. Cadova and Henry Wilson led to a gunfight in a San Bernardino saloon. Bar keeper Silver Griffith was killed, with Cadova and a bystander believed dying. Local authorities investigate the chaotic shooting.
Albany report says Billy Edwards of Chicago and Bill Hoy of Albany agreed to fight but refused last night because the purse was inadequate. The event was scheduled for Albany on March 29.
Fire on east forty ninth street at about 9 20 this morning burned one child to death and officials fear another may not survive.
Three firemen were seriously injured when a burning building on Canal Street collapsed at about 6 this morning in Cucaco.
New York March 29 The Cotton Exchange announces the failure of Louis I Zerega a prominent cotton broker.
The senate adopted an extraordinary amendment to authorize the secretary of the treasury to buy United States bonds with surplus funds in open market. The move would reduce bank note circulation as notes are surrendered when bonds are bought. Senator Plumb added a provision to issue treasury notes equal to bank note surrender, and the senate passed it 28 to 21 amid party mix.
The argument centers on a fiscal split between supporters of honest money and financial heresy. The amendment would neutralize the bill by issuing greenbacks as government obligations, risking credit and reviving treasury notes with no interest or fixed redemption. The president bears responsibility if the policy reverts to past monetary fallacies.
The House committee on military affairs favors aid to states for veterans in need. The bill would pay $100 per inmate annually, with widows and orphans removed from coverage. The report cites 13,801 veterans in charitable care, lists state totals, and notes national home capacity already reached and high state expenditures in Massachusetts and Wisconsin.
The piece describes biliousness with varied symptoms like poor appetite for solids, white furred tongue, irregular digestion, diarrhea or constipation, hemorrhoids or bleeding, giddiness headache acidity and stomach tenderness. It promotes Green's August Flower as a low cost remedy with many attestations of efficacy.
An elderly physician, recently retired, states a missionary provided a vegetable formula for curing consumption and other lung and nervous ailments. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with usage directions to all who request it, via W A Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester NY.
Advice to mothers praises Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a trusted teething remedy used for forty years by millions. It claims to relieve pain, cure dysentery and diarrhea, griping, and wind in infants, with a price of 25 cents for two bottles.
To Tha Public. H. KK. Faukner, dealer in hardware, will hereafter give goods out of his stock for rags, copper, old rubber boots and shoes, scrap iron, both wrought and cast, and allow fair prices.
The Strathay, ninety days from India's coral strand under a foreign flag, docks at a Brooklyn pier with 1000 barrels of plumbago and 1200 barrels of cocoanut oil after voyage from Cochin and Columbo. The article details the voyage, ports, and commodities including coir and casings, plus a vivid note on Alipee population and Hindoo attire.
A critique cites tricks by Chinese merchants such as puffing up meat with a goose quill, hiding weight with stones in cabbage, wiring fake fruit to dwarf trees, and repairing damaged ware to mimic original porcelain. The article notes the small profits do not deter such deception and frames it as a cautionary tale from Chester Holcombe.
A boy asks grandpa for permission to borrow his wig to use as a scalp prop in a two afternoon game of Life on the Plains with neighbors the Tompkins and the Clarks at the Clarks' barn. The exchange suggests a lighthearted prank or play rehearsal in a rural setting.
Harding and A Rogers list locations in western Iowa and Nebraska for stock sales and real estate, with Chicago St Paul & Omaha railway round trip fare details. Tickets valid March 20th and 24th May 8th and 29th, return within thirty days. Information from T. W. Teasdale, General Passenger Agent, St Paul.
W D Sult, a druggist, testifies Bitters is the best remedy and relieves rheumatism after one man Six bottles were tried. Abraham Hare of Bellville Ohio endorses Electric as the best medicine after twenty years of experience. The adverts claim Electri¢ Bitters cure liver and kidney diseases at fifty cents a bottle from Gale's drug store.
An old advertisement touts a salve claimed to cure bruises sores ulcers salt fever sores tetter chilblains corns and other skin irritations. It guarantees perfect satisfaction or money refunded with a price of 25 cents per box.
An old advertisement promotes Farm 2Gain loans on improved farms with various interest terms. It also markets SHILOH'S VITALIZER for constipation and dyspepsia, SHILOH'S CURE for croup and bronchitis, and a claim from Rev. Geo. H. Thay praising SHILON SUMPTION CURE. It mentions money to loan on city property and fallow rates for brick or stone business.
In the Second Judicial District of I County Dakota Territory Judge Washburn’s court issues a public sale notice. O O Stanchfield of Davison County is to sell the mortgage property at the Mitchell courthouse on May 8 at 10 am, including the NW quarter of section 2 township 104 range 61, Davison County, to satisfy the judgment and costs totaling 319.50 plus interest and sale costs.
In Dakota Territory Mitchell probate court announces Mary J. Bib filed for letters of administration for Geo Bidwell deceased. A hearing is set for April 16, 1858 at 10 o clock in the probate office in Mitchell to consider the petition and allow interested persons to appear with objections. A.J. Edgerton attorney for petitioner.
In the Probate Court of the Territory of Lakota a notice announces Oliver L. has filed for letters of administration for Olive M. Perry, deceased. The hearing is set for the Ist day of April at the office of the probate judge in Mitchell, Davison County. Interested parties may appear and object. the petition may be granted or denied.
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